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Education - lifelong education for everyone - from toddlers to workers well advanced in their careers - is indeed an excellent investment for individuals and society as a whole.

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With respect to their safety, derivatives, for the most part, are traded among very sophisticated financial institutions and individuals who have considerable incentive to understand them and to use them properly.

The risk exists that, with aggregate demand exhibiting considerable momentum, output could overshoot its sustainable path, leading ultimately in the absence of countervailing monetary policy action to further upward pressure on inflation.

Speaking as somebody who has been happily married for 35 years, I can't imagine any choice more consequential for a lifelong journey than the choice of a traveling companion.

The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have - great universities. We have entrepreneurs.

I don't think that Chinese ownership of U.S. assets is so large as to put our country at risk economically.

The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences.

The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might say that, in the long run, we are all on Social Security and Medicare.

The economic repercussions of a stock market crash depend less on the severity of the crash itself than on the response of economic policymakers, particularly central bankers.

Economics is a very difficult subject. I've compared it to trying to learn how to repair a car when the engine is running.

If you are not happy with yourself, even the loftiest achievements won't bring you much satisfaction.

I don't see much evidence of an equity bubble.

Nobody really understands gold prices and I don't pretend to understand them either.

The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings.

The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.

If you are asking me if I would advocate that the Chinese go to greater flexibility in their exchange rate, I certainly would.

It's true that the Federal Reserve faces a lot of political pressure and is unpopular in many circles.

I and others were mistaken early on in saying that the subprime crisis would be contained. The causal relationship between the housing problem and the broad financial system was very complex and difficult to predict.